What happens during and after a liver transplant?

 

Liver Transplant Surgery in India is usually done as a life-saving procedure, and involves removing part or all of the diseased liver and replacing it with a healthy one. Common reasons why one may require this surgery includes alcoholic liver disease, cancers that start in the liver, fatty liver disease and cirrhosis caused by chronic hepatitis C. Patients with acute liver failure may also require a transplant.

During a Liver Transplant in India, your surgeon would:

• Make an incision in your abdomen
• Cut off the blood vessels to the diseased liver
• Remove the diseased liver and replace it with a healthy liver from the donor
• Reattach the bile ducts and blood vessels
• Close up the incision

Post surgery hospital recovery after a liver transplant may last two weeks or more, depending on the health of the patient before the transplant, and other relevant factors. At first, the patient is likely to stay at the transplant intensive care unit (ICU) as they recover from the surgery. The liver transplant team, would monitor the new liver and the overall condition of the patient. You may have to take certain anti-rejection medications right away to help reduce the chance of liver rejection. When your body detects something new, its immune system starts working to fight what it views at a threat. Anti-rejection medications are meant to suppress this natural response of the immune system, enabling your body to accept the new liver. Further details of this surgery, well as Liver transplantation cost in India can be found online.